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Prayers to survive wars that last (poems)
- Title
- Prayers to survive wars that last (poems) / Chielozona Eze.
- Author
- Eze, Chielozona
- Publication
- Milwaukee, WI : Cissus World Press, ©2017.
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Details
- Description
- 70 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- Contents
- Prologue. Preface ; Lagos, Lagos ; The three patriarchs -- The war survivor returns to his Mother. The art of loving what is not perfect ; A look from the window of his old room ; Memory: a parable ; Memory: a prayer ; What is not remembered is not redeemed -- He looks at the pictures of the war he survived. Unknown boy soldiers ; The exodus ; Our eyes are watching God ; Starved girl ; Boy with kwashiorkor belly ; Before death, hell ; The shame of empty plates ; Remember me -- He talks with his memory. He who has no sin ; Letter to self from city that survived ; Memory, again ; How did the song end ; Speak to me, memory ; Ode to my refugee shirt ; Not letting the dead bury the dead ; The human condition ; In praise of question marks ; Stocktaking ; How to survive wars that survive ; Praying for the weak in times of endless wars ; Picking mushrooms ; The color of money ; Refusing my father's fate ; Epiphany -- He remembers other people in pain. The black woman killed by the apartheid police ; The Nigerian woman who was to be stoned for making love ; Victuals for the dead ; An elegy ; A new planting season ; Of gods, love and grandma ; In search of my father's dream ; An army roadblock -- He just wants to dance. Regrets of a crippled veteran ; Could he haunt others as he was haunted? ; He celebrates his 50th birthday ; Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot ; Survival kit ; The traveler ; Sitting on an egg ; When poetry heals.
- Call Number
- Sc E 20-459
- ISBN
- 9780997868944
- 0997868945
- OCLC
- 1014147962
- Author
- Eze, Chielozona, author.
- Title
- Prayers to survive wars that last (poems) / Chielozona Eze.
- Imprint
- Milwaukee, WI : Cissus World Press, ©2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1967-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 20-459